Booted RACY on laptop without a LAN cable and on an 8GB desktop which has 2 motherboard LAN adapters where no cable exist in eth0 while a cable to DHCP router exist in eth1. FirstRUN isn't showing Hostname sections for system on either system.

On the Laptop after several hours of tests, I plugged in a USB drive which has 4 partitions. After about 3-4 minutes of navigating, ROX "locked"!!! In order to regain desktop I had to use,

Code:

Ctrl-Alt-Bkspce and xwin

.
On the desktop, initial boot give a signal out of range. And required a

Code:

pfix=nox and xorgwizard

to see desktop of the nVidia 250 video card.

Another problemOn the laptop: Desktop tailoring and installation of 01Micko's SAMBA package with a save session to HDD as a 256MB Ext4 file would NOT reboot system using the save session. Only reboot alternative is pfix=ram or pfix=1. Thus, the save-session had to be purged.

I do understand that this is beta. I would provide any logs or information to help. Please provide guidance should more information be needed on either of the 2 platforms I mentioned

RACY running on Laptop with Flash, Seamonkey, GParted fix and SAMBA (01Micko's) installed and running provides the following measurement:

Code:

Memory : 1544MB (112MB used)

And, when running on the 8GB system, I have a similar RAM "used" picture.

As always, the system is speedy and responsive.
Requesting I'm sure the BUG in WOOF version of FirstRUN has been noticed.

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I have installed frugal wary on my office PC.
I was not able to configure LAN. ie. static IP is not possible. Hence no internet on my office PC while using Wary beta.

Simple Network Setup (SNS) will only work if DHCP is working on your network. Try using Network Wizard instead, this will allow you to set up with Static IP. Wired network devices are usually called eth0 (at least they are on the machines I use at home)._________________Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 HardInfo Report
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

Yes, these releases of Wary & Racy are much more temperamental than anything seen previously. They work perfectly on some machines, not at all on others. Run them on 26 machines so far, still going. Unlike you, James, I don't keep extensive notes and screen drops. Strangely, the results are not what might be predicted - sometimes Racy run perfectly on old kit that defies Wary and v.v. The massive recent increase in .iso sizes isn't helping. Think it just emphasises HW tolerances - exactly the issue that confronted the other OS back in '95! This is what you get with cartels masquerading as progress. Soon there'll be a premium on SktA boards; SDRAM is already at a substantial price premium over DDR3...

Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
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The wireless network failed to setup so I plugged in the wired network.
The retrovol icon in the tray is x'ed out and configuring retrovol
doesn't work.
Tried to run alsamixer in the terminal and got this:
# alsamixer
cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument
#
But sound is working, I played an mp3 with mplayer, loud enough to
wake the dead until I grabbed the volume control and turned it down.
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I have installed frugal wary on my office PC.
I was not able to configure LAN. ie. static IP is not possible. Hence no internet on my office PC while using Wary beta.

Simple Network Setup (SNS) will only work if DHCP is working on your network. Try using Network Wizard instead, this will allow you to set up with Static IP. Wired network devices are usually called eth0 (at least they are on the machines I use at home).

I have tried both Network wizard, etc. However, not possible to setup. Please also not that I have not seen any eth0 in the setup.

I have tried both Network wizard, etc. However, not possible to setup. Please also not that I have not seen any eth0 in the setup.

Of course I'm assuming that you are using a wired network. Wireless usually identifies as wlan0 and you need to scan for networks and select the one you want before you can set it up. How do you connect in other operating systems?_________________Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 HardInfo Report
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

Testing Wary 5.3.90 on my trusty K6-2 500 machine. Initially booted of LiveCD. Sound working straight away and a nice stable picture at 1024x768@85Hz on my ViewSonic E70fSB CRT. Ran Universal Installer and did a Full Install to empty ext4 partition sda2. Noticed that Universal Installer still wanted me to move the Live CD from sr0 (CDRW drive, secondary master and first boot device) to sr1 (DVD drive, secondary slave).

Installed grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.8.0.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697 and ran it, updating menu.lst and then chose to reboot the machine. Created 512MB ext4 savefile in /mnt/sda6/Pupsaves - partition is ext3 and is the main data partition on the machine.

Tried running SeaMonkey from desktop and menu. Nothing happened. Tried to setup CUPS. Nothing happened. Attempted to run SeaMonkey from task window and got an 'Illegal Instruction' error. K6-2 series is classed as i586 due to lack of CMOV instruction.

Playing MP3s works fine, both from loading the file from a filer window (eventually loads PMusic and plays the file) and by loading from MPlayer. Noticed that the files were playing at 37% volume for some reason, solved that by bringing up the main Retrovol window and increasing the slider for PCM up to 89%.

I've attached the full output of Report Video to this post, some more info about my system appear below.

Not tried it online yet, largely because that would require me to disconnect everything and physically move the computer into the study - not that I could really do much anyway with a non-working SeaMonkey.

Here's a feature I've not seen before. Older kit, eg Soltek75KAV/396Mb/nV, SM won't run from Live CD, installed FF and Flashplayer not shown present, other querks. Normally run these things off CD-RW but this time had used a DVD-RW (good burn). Reverting to CD-RW, everything OK. Recent CD/DVD/DL drive. Must be some issue relating to read/access times as nothing to do with the rest of the HW.

Wary 5.3.90
Manual frugal install to a Compaq Armada M700 (850mhz).
Only a few issues noticed - sound not configured on first boot.
Alsaconf found the right module, but once selected it didn't get loaded. A reboot works or just modprobing it myself.
Also, there was an unusually long delay after selecting the keyboard layout.
Other than that, all seems ok.

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